From: Luis G. <lui...@us...> - 2010-02-20 16:18:27
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> This is exactly what I said when we were asked to separate the font > files. They didn't want to make an exception, which I had to accept. > Not that I am kind of tempted to leave the fonts in the binary because > their font file detection scripts will not find them anymore. :) This > was not the case with 1.7.3 where the fonts were installed separately > and we were getting yelled at. Should I cheat? :) LOL! Probably not worth compromising your reputation, even if RG devs don't adopt your patch it should be reasonably easy to maintain, it can be even scripted into the spec file. Are they so anal then, eh? OK, staying away of resource files is not a big problem, although it is a good way of making sure that your vital media file will not be overwritten by a well-intentioned packager trying to spare a few KB. I think /usr/share is normally a great idea. Saves storage, bandwidth, etc. But sometimes things are just not meant to be shared. I wonder if the distro gods would put their own platform-independent girlfriends there too. :-) |